Folded joss paper a unique prayer offering


Proud display: Lee (left) showing the variety of folded joss paper to customers at his shop in Taman Sentosa in Bukit Mertajam, Penang.

BUKIT MERTAJAM: Intricate offerings of folded joss paper, no two looking alike, deck the front of Lee Keat Chye’s shop ahead of the Jade Emperor God’s birthday, known in Hokkien as Thnee Kong Seh celebration.

Made with small pieces of folded joss paper forming spiky shapes of pineapples, lotus flowers or pots of gold, Lee said not one of the 200 he made this year resembled the other.

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